Monday Madness

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1. How many times a month/year do you see the sunrise?

If the question is how many times I notice the sun coming up, probably about 10 times a year. In the winter, I'm up before the sun almost every day. If/when I go to early bird Bible study, I do occasionally notice it rising--in the middle of the discussion. I do love to be awake and able to just watch the sun crest the trees that are between the house and the horizon. I should take the time to do it more often.

2. How many times a week/month do you see the sunset?

Possibly about twice that of the sunrise. Beast is a BIG sunset freak, though; he will sit out on the back porch and (ugh) smoke a cigar while watching the colors. I need mountains before I get impressed.

3. Do you go out at night and "gaze" at the stars?

I can probably count on both hands the number of times in my life I've intentionally gone outside and looked at the stars. Lights. In the sky. Okay. Orion, Big Dipper, North Star. Moving on.... Very dismaying to Beast.

4. Do you ever look for star clusters, such as the big dipper, etc?

I can find the two I named, and the north star. That's about it. Yawn.

5. Do you look for planets at night (with or without a telescope)?

Nope. Can't be bovvered.

6. Are you able to see the northern lights where you live? If so, about how often do they come around?

We've seen them a couple of times, I think. They are pretty amazing. Very eery.

7. Do you like going outside during a thunderstorm and watching the lightening?

I do like being out in storms, not so much for the lightning itself but for the electricity in the air and the ozone-y smell. I used to love walking in the rain, too, but glasses kind of ruined that.

8. Do you have any really neat weather pictures? PLEASE, feel free to share them!

I don't think I have any online. I have a lot of weird snow photos: Snow on Easter, Snowdrifts in the driveway, Unbroken Snow in the backyard, [Dog] buried in snow (it was THAT DEEP!), not so much anything else, and they are all non-digital. Sorry.